Scala on Scala Meetup

Scala reload 2025: AI，chip and DSL (202512)

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The Scala meetup in 2025-12-13, focusing on AI, chip design, and DSLs.

Poster

Topics:

Pytorch On Scala3 for Deep Learning & Large Language Models - Muller, Here Technologies
ScaIR: MLIR inspired Scala Compiler Framework - Maksymilian, University of Edinburgh
vscode AI extension written in Scala - Eason Du
DependentChisel: chip design language based on Scala 3 dependent types - Eason Du, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Venue

Date: 2025-12-13(Saturday)

7 years of Scala religion: From backend to chip design

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I'm Eason du, a Scala enthusiast for many years. This is the first part of my story of using Scala for 7 years. I'm writing this story just before the upcoming Scala meetup. This post is causally written, as a mixture of my Scala career, thoughts about Scala, and some life experiences, so please forgive me for lack of clearness and read it causally.

From Haskell to Scala

I started using Scala in 2018, when I graduated from college as Bachelors. My journey with programming started from high school with C for embedded systems, and I continued with Java for Android development just before college. I become interested in functional programming and programming language theory after reading the book "Hackers and Painters" by Paul Graham, which mentioned Lisp. So I started to use Lisp to do homework assignments in college. Later I found Haskell, and I was fascinated by its elegance and mathematical beauty. So I switched to Haskell and used it for most of my homework assignments wherever possible. Then it's time to graduate, and when I was looking for jobs, it seemed that the chances of getting a job with Haskell is very low. My first job is full stack development with Java and Typescript, and during that time, I learned about Kotlin and Scala, and after trying both, I decided to invest in Scala, since it feels more functional.

Migrate to Hugo from Jekyll

Mon, 10 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Move static content to `static`

Jekyll has a rule that any directory not starting with _ will be copied as-is to the _site output. Hugo keeps all static content under static. You should therefore move it all there. With Jekyll, something that looked like

▾ <root>/
 ▾ images/
 logo.png

should become

▾ <root>/
 ▾ static/
 ▾ images/
 logo.png

Additionally, you'll want any files that should reside at the root (such as CNAME) to be moved to static.